John L. Lewis Quotes

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• The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined…
• Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog.
• The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
• The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living,…
• Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has a constitutional…
• The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause…
• This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts…
• Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again
• The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.
• The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its…
• Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.
• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere…
• The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into…
• Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them,…
• Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and…
• If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree…
• The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant…
• Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution…
• Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.
• In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

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